Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-31
NUMBER 38.
Well, YOU would soon find out. if all taxa.

Well, you would soon find out, il all taxa
ton were put upon the rental values of th
land, that deeds were useful only when me
want TO play dog-in-th the -manger with land.
Yes, but how would / prevent any on
from taking my land from me if 1 did nc
have a deed to do it?
: Because nobody else would have deed t
it. How do you prevent any one else fror
e taking possession of your wagon, horse, COW
or anything else that you possess withou
holding deed?
No; there YOU are mistaken again. Th
land already belongs to the state and wh
should it sell from you when you are onl
the man in possession and not the owner i
fee?
| And, further, the foreigners havin,
invested here should be Virtually pun
ished by entire confiscation.
The article from which the abov,
clippings are taken was written BY
Farmer" professed follower o
George, and appealing from the tribu
nal over which he presides, and il
which / have plead guilty of getting
my notions of George from silly news
paper articles, TO the tribunal of thu
public, ask, does it laysin the mouth
of this self erected judge. the sage o
Murrayville, to pass sentence upon me,
culprit, and selfconfessed, though /
may be?
| Then I based my criticisms of Henry
| George upon the teachings of George
| ite, but it would seem from his paper
that. though Ge rgeite, he had HIM
self never read Progress and Poverty.
1t is more charitable to him to think
that than to say, that though he knew
he was misrepresenting George in do
ing so, still he. the sage of Murrayville,
could not resist the temptation to dig
pit at long range, way over in South
of us mossbacks. The first is the most
charitable view to take it. But even
then, in view of our charity, the sage
having since gotten possession Of Pro-
gress (fcr my part I've always had
poverty it is hardly kind of him to
come at us, as he does, in blood
thirsty manner, with whole chunks of
1t, shot at long range out of his literary
Krupp gun. He should have had
mercy; he should have let us know that
he had since read George himself, and
had ceased to base bis notions on silly
criticisms in newspapers, but based
RI hn Hf
and Poverty. He should have let us
know of his change of heart; he should
not have opened his masked batteries
without warning: when the devil be-
comes an angel (if he ever does) 1 am
sure be will give us warning to shut
down the fires at his house, and move
over to the other place il we can, be-
fore he takes part in judging us for sins
he induced us to commit. Mr.. Farm
er," is this getting tiresome? Do you
desire to take rest? Or do you say
peccauis
Mr.. "Farmer" in his last article
quotes from Progress and Poverty:
II do not propose to purchase or con-
fiscate private property in land. The
first would be unjust, the second need
less" Then there is to be no holding
of land in common and by the state, as
was taught by "Farmer"in the REGIS
TER of February 10th, 1887. But what
would that be but confiscation which
released from taxation all chattels and
raised all revenue in the shape of rent
for lands or taxes on lands.
What would that be but confiscation
where the rent or taxes was placed SO
high as to virtually make the land
common property, as advocated in the
quotation from George by Farmer"
To quote again from George and
Farmer" "As man belongs to him
self, SO his labor, when put in concrete
form, belongs to him." Ergo, when
/ have earned money by the sweat of
my brow, or otherwise, honestly and
lawfully, and put it in land, he is
'tainted" Ito quote "Farmer) be he
Henry George or be be, even, the sage
that is invested in land, would tax it
into common property.
AS to my confusion of thought in
land with things which |
are produced by labor and which lat
ter decay, &C., and are, he argues, ours
absolutely, as against land which is
ours to use only, did feel disposed to
enter into scientific discussion could |
convince the sage that no substa nee, and |
all chattels are substance or are repre- |
of substance, is the product |
Of la boz, that all chattels are in their eie- !
ments the same with the earth, created |
at the same time and 10 exist for the |
same period, Cor the same purposes as
does land, and held by the same title. |
No man made anything; therefore. to
carry George to his only legitimate end,
all things, land or what not, should be |
held in common, or on the other hand,
should be held in common.
Mr.. Editor, no reply is necessary to
the unmerited fling at the church |
which civilized Europe and kept down
there for hundreds of years.
IF Farmer" will read the first ten
pages of EVEN Macauley's England he
will feel less bitterly toward that d.
VINE institution. I am not q Catholic, |
either.
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